[71763] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Can a customer take IP's with them?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Provo)
Wed Jun 23 06:42:09 2004
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 06:41:27 -0400
From: Joe Provo <nanog-post@rsuc.gweep.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Reply-To: nanog-post@rsuc.gweep.net
In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.58.0406230110030.4516@vanadium.hq.nac.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 01:15:14AM -0400, Alex Rubenstein wrote:
>
> Should a customer be allowed to force a carrier to allow them to announce
> non-portable IP space as they see fit to any other carriers of their
> choosing when they are no longer buying service from the original carrier
> [that the space is assigned to]?
Non-portable is non-portable. Historically, a sane renumbering window
is provided. According to some stories, enforcement of renumbering
windows has occasionally taken place by re-use of to-be-revoked space,
or its reannouncement to peers in smaller chunks.
Of course, the new provider should be able to vet the space, see the
'non-portable' note and tell the customer about multioming-vs-moving,
their renumbering guides, contact NAC, etc. It would be an
irresponsible provider that would announce another provider's NON-
portable spacewithout the customer clearly multihoming and without
clearance from the originating provider.
> In other words, customer is asking a court to rule whether or not IP space
> should be portable, when an industry-supported organization (ARIN) has
> made policy that the space is in fact not portable. It can be further
> argued that the court could impose a TRO that would potentially negatively
> affect the operation of my network.
Portable space is available from the registry. That is their recourse.
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